"It's kind of pathetic actually that we are all sitting here talking about Forth. It is not the wave of the future. It's never been the wave of the future. It's not within our power to make it the wave of the future."

-- Charles H. Moore

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“If God makes all our faces, did he laugh when he made me?”
“The red rose whispers of passion, And the white rose breathes of love; O, the red rose is a falcon, And the white rose is a dove.”

Source : John Boyle O'Reilly, Liam Barry (1994). “Selected poems, speeches, dedications and letters of John Boyle O'Reilly, 1844-1890”
“Lord, give us the wisdom to utter words that are gentle and tender, for tomorrow we may have to eat them.”
“I wouldn't say that holidays are manufactured by corporations, but they're certainly exploited and mined by them.”
“But when I went to Harvard, it kind of got washed out of me, partly because people made fun of you in college. If you said you believed in God, they would look at you clinically, you know, suggest that you needed a referral.”
“Evolution: The Modern Synthesis.”
“Put variety in white.”

Source : Richard Mühlberger, Charles Webster Hawthorne (1999). “Charles Webster Hawthorne”, University of Washington Press
“It is easier to lead men to combat, stirring up their passion, than to restrain them and direct them toward the patient labors of peace.”

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